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Stem-to-Stern. Acting on a tip, police broke into a storage locker belonging to a resident of Albion Towers, a 15-story Southampton public housing project, and uncovered a 400-lb. cache of gelignite. That is enough explosive material to make about 80 bombs of the type that have terrorized London since the I.R.A. opened a new campaign of random bombing three months ago. The gelignite was later traced to an Irish explosives manufacturer and presumably had been transported into Britain directly across the Irish Sea. But shortly after finding it, police rounded up 46 suspects, including a number...
...openers, there is nationally ranked Clemson (as in Clemson from the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is to collegiate basketball what Harvard is to rowing) and Syracuse (a finalist in the NCAAs last March) in this weekend's Tip-Off Tournament in South Carolina. Then there are those giants from Boston College, an angry UMass team, and four combined contests with Princeton (last year's NIT champs) and Penn, which plays Top Twenty basketball while residing in the Ivy League...
Handsome, medium height, slender, Brooks Brothers glen plaid suit, blue shirt with a button-down collar, wing-tip shoes, a slight...
...Nixon nominees have not proved to be as unified as many observers had anticipated; in fact, they have done little to reverse the work of the Warren Court except in the area of criminal law. But whoever he-or she-is, Ford's nominee is almost certain to tip the balance of the court even further away from the postwar liberalism that Douglas (and the late Hugo Black) came to symbolize. For his part, Douglas aims to continue to speak out, in books if not from the bench. He has already completed the first draft of his memoirs...
...helped enormously in discovering the schematic layout of Ulysses and some of the obscurities in Finnegan's Wake. But they also open up another realm for the scholars of hither and yon; they sketch out the tracery of ganglia and dendrons that made up Joyce's character, from the tip of his penis to the top of his cerebrating cells. In Richard Ellmann's collection of Joyce letters this sketch becomes fuller in direct proportion to the descent of the nervous charge from the brain to the genitals...